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TA1142 Definitions
Term | Definition |
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Determinate of Health | Any non-medical factor that has the potential to influence the health of an individual, such as the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age. |
Health | A state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing. |
Habilitation | A treatment option that is designed to help patients or clients learn skills that they are unable to learn on their own. |
Rehabilitation | A treatment option that is designed to help patients or clients regain skills or functions that have been lost to injury and/or illness. |
Interdisciplinary Team | A group of health care providers from different specialities and professional backgrounds that work together to achieve a common goal. |
Multidisciplinary Team | A group of health care providers from different specialities and professional backgrounds that contribute to the health of an individual independently. |
Disability | Any restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered typical for a human being, that is not corrected by a technical aid and lasting or expected to last six months or longer. |
International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health | An internationally used classification system used to define and describe the changes in body function, structure, capcity, and performance. |
Body Function | Physiological and psychological functions of body systems. |
Body Structures | anatomical parts of the human body such as organs, limbs and their components. |
Impairment | any problem in body function or structure such as a significant deviation or loss that impacts an individual's ability to perform an activity. |
Activity | the execution of a task or action by an individual. |
Participation | Refers to the involvement in a life situation. |
Activity Limitation | Refers to difficulties an individual may encounter when attempting to execute an activity. |
Participation Restriction | Refers to problems an individual may experience during the involvement in life situations. |
Environmental Factor | any physical, social, or attitudinal element of an environment in which people live and conduct their lives. |
Abelism | A set of beliefs or practices that devalue and discriminate against people with physical, intellectual, or psychiatric disabilities. |
Short Term Goal | The interim steps towards achieving or progressing toward a long term goal and is expected to be reached in 2 weeks or less. |
Long Term Goal | any goal that is expected to be achieved at a more distant future, usually in 2 or more weeks. |
SMART Goal | Acronym for Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and relevance, and time. |
Impact Reduction | The act of decreasing the effect of an impairment on an individual. |
Enable | To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity to make day to day engagement in life possible. |
Fragility | Refers to a physiological state commonly associated with ageing that is characterized by reduced resistance to stressors as a result of the cumulative decline of multiple physiological systems that increase vulnerability to adverse health outcomes. |
Functional Rehabilitation | The process of returning an individual to their maximum levels of independence in the activities that are important to them. |
Function | the ability to perform tasks and obligations of daily living independently. |
Affect | The motivational, behavioral, and subjective aspects of emotion. |
Competence | refers to the set of attributes and skills required to perform a particular activity. |
Performance | refers to the physical act of carrying out a task and how well it can be completed under varying demands and environmental conditions. |
Activity of Daily Living (ADL) | Refers to the basic daily tasks essential for independent living such as bathing, dressing, and toileting. |
Instrumental Activities of Daily living (IADL) | Refers to the complex tasks required for independent living such a finance management, shopping, and managing medications. |
SOAP Note | Patient charting format that stands for Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan |
F/DAR Note | Patient charting format that stands for focus, data, action, response. |
FAIR Note | Patient charting format that stands for focus, assessment, intervention, and response. |
Clinical Observation | Refers to the observation of a patient while completing functional tasks in which information pertaining to performance and competence can be obtained. |
Therapeutic Relationship | A relationship that is perceived to encompass caring, supportive, and nonjudgmental behavior, embedded in a safe environment during a stressful period. |
Body Image | A persons subjective picture or mental image of their own body. |
Helping Relationship | A type of relationship in which at least one person has the intent of promoting growth, development, or improved functioning and coping skills of another individual. |
Social Helping Realthionship | A personal or intimate relationship in which general help is provided without specific or special skills, that is not defined by care needs and there is no power differential. |
Therapeutic Helping Relationship | A relationship that is health focused and client centered with defined boundaries and specialized professional skills. |
Regulatory Body | an organization that governs and regulates the educational, technical, certification, standard of care, ethical, and scope of practice of a specific profession. |
Therapeutic Alliance | The description of the interaction between a healthcare professional and their patients |
Body Nostalgia | Refers to the sentimental yearning for the previous appearance and function on one own's body. |
Body disconnection | Refers to not wanting to touch or acknowledge an injury or the part of the body affected by an injury. |
Advanced Health Care Directive | A legal document that defines an individual's health care wishes that only goes into effect when they are incapacitated and unable to speak for themselves. |
Certification | Refers to the act of deeming an individual as incapacitated and unable to appreciate risk and make health care decisions under the mental health act. |
Personal Health Information | any information, oral or written, that can identify an individual |